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Briefing Book! Prince Sings About the Economy

CitizenSugar — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:30:51 -0700

Prince sings about AIG? – Wonkette
Freedom tower will get a new name. - Gawker
In the middle of the night, Yoko Ono wakes up in the dark. - Twitter
Woman celebrates her 130th birthday?! - GiggleSugar
Obama's stiffing the art world. - The Daily Beast
Artist paints herself having sex with each US president. - Boing Boing
Conservatives embrace the Snuggie. - Politico

Why Do We Scream at Each Other?

GiggleSugar — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:05:47 -0800

Dig if u will, a flow chart. This flow chart answers Prince's pressing question in "When Doves Cry": Why do we scream at each other? I shall print this out and carry it around with me for future reference. (Incidentally, I can do Prince's little dance routine at the end of the video. Just so you know.)

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Fling Candy Bar Commercial

GiggleSugar — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:02:00 -0700

"Forever is overrated" sing the little birdies after the Prince and Princess awkwardly exchange goodbyes the morning after knockin' boots. Walt Disney this is not.

Prince Harry Shows His Military Medal. . .Your Favorite Prince?

CitizenSugar — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:00:25 -0700

This morning Prince Harry was awarded a military service medal for his 10 weeks of frontline service in Afghanistan. The 23-year-old prince served in Afghanistan with other members of his Household Cavalry Regiment. British forces have been fighting in Afghanistan for six years - but recently they're struggling to hold out against a resurgent Taliban force - according to US intelligence assessments, the Taliban force now controls at least 10 percent of the country.

Harry's job in Afghanistan included flying secret missions working as a forward air controller - he would call in air strikes to let pilots know where their targets were. Until he was outed earlier this year, Harry was the first member of the royal family to see active war service since Prince Andrew flew helicopters during the Falklands war 26 years ago.

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His dad, brother, and his girlfriend Chelsy Davy attended the award service. Harry's brother William received his RAF wings recently and just last week paid a secret visit to British frontline troops.

Here's the burning (admittedly silly, yet completely necessary for a Monday morning) question: who's your favorite military prince? Are you a Team Harry, or a Team William? (Don't worry - Liberty and I have already had a protracted discussion about this - we've chosen sides, and we clearly need to know where y'all stand.)

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Prince Harry Moves Fast - Under Investigation For Speeding

CitizenSugar — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:52:11 -0700

Britain's Prince Harry is a speedy operator. . . or at least he travels with them. In the UK, police are answering to claims that a car carrying Prince Harry (to London nightspot Boujis - clearly a royal emergency) was being driven in a speedy and reckless manner.

The police received a complaint on Wednesday from a driver who claimed he was tailgated by a royal convoy and forced to drive at dangerous speeds to get out of the way.

Allegedly, the princely Audi sped along at more than 100 mph and tried to pass the complaining driver in the outside lane after the Prince's car zoomed up behind with headlights flashing. The driver says, “It was very close. I thought they were going to nudge me. It was frightening. The middle lane was busy so I couldn’t pull back in. I had no option but to accelerate, forcing me well over the 70 mph speed limit to speeds I was uncomfortable with.”

Oh, Harry. Is this probably just a princely prank - or cause for concern? In other Harry news, the prince introduced his girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, to his grandmother - the Queen - at a wedding over the weekend. Now that would be an introduction to get your heart racing.

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Prince William's Helicopter Fiasco - and More Royal News!

CitizenSugar — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:15:31 -0700

Royal flyboy Prince William landed his helicopter in hot water over the weekend - that is a $20 million Chinook helicopter that he landed in his girlfriend Kate Middleton's garden.

Prince William flew through a series of landings and takeoffs in his RAF Chinook outside the Middleton family home in Buckinghamshire. Trying to explain the eyebrow raising behavio[u]r, a royal source said, "there's nothing more macho than landing a helicopter in your girlfriend's backyard."

And I thought just being the future King of England was enough. . . !

More royal news came out over the weekend - it appears that the UK is changing it up in regard to the laws on succession to the throne. To see how it might affect the potential offspring of Prince William and Kate, read more.

No longer will eldest girls be overlooked for their younger bros when it comes time to take the crown. If the new equality law makes it through the Commons, it would mean that if Prince William has a daughter, followed by a younger son, the daughter would get to be queen. Proponents of the new law call the old way of ignoring girls, "a load of rubbish."

Girls may be in, but Catholics still need not apply to any Royal posts. The ban on Catholics, or anyone married to a Catholic, succeeding to the throne is still alive and well. The late Cardinal Winning might have put it best when he condemned the law, saying it's "the grubby little secret which still shames our nation."

Is there still a place for royalty in modern society? If Prince William and Prince Harry weren't so . . . charismatic, would we be less interested in maintaining monarchies?

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Oh, Snap! William Gets Prince's Welcome

TresSugar — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:00:00 -0700

Prince William was greeted by adoring fans as he visited the National Memorial Arboretum on April 24, 2009 near Lichfield, England.

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Sailor Prince William Headed to Caribbean to Take on Drugs!

LibertySugar — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:00:06 -0700

Prince William will be summering in the Caribbean! His next assignment with the Royal Navy will have him taking on drug traffickers in the Caribbean aboard the HMS Iron Duke . . . not exactly a vacation. The ship will sail on August 1.

Before he leaves, he'll have to undergo some basic sea safety training. The future king will learn how to navigate the sea, fight fires, and survive at sea during a catastrophe.

So what will life be like on this Royal Cruise? William will most likely be searching boats suspected of carrying cocaine. Navy officials admit that the days will be exhausting and austere. He'll even have to use a communal bathroom! Serious mission aside, the Love Boat duds are quite fetching. Ahoy matey, indeed!

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The Fresh Prince Of D.C.

GiggleSugar — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:00:00 -0700

If all presidential propaganda had Will Smith's singing endorsement and this kind of 90s flare, politicians wouldn't have to waste so much time and energy on getting young folks out to "Rock The Vote." Who wouldn't give the "Fresh Prince" of D.C. their complete attention and then bust a move in the direction of the polls when he's done? (Democratic candidates: May I suggest Full House? John Edwards as Uncle Jesse?..)

Is the War on Drugs Being Waged From the Wrong Battlefront?

CitizenSugar — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:51:03 -0700

Just consider me Mary Poppins this morning: a little sweet Prince William to help the War on Drugs go down. The Prince is on the front lines of the battle - the warship the Prince is serving on just seized $80 million worth (almost two tons) of cocaine from a speedboat just north of Barbados.

William's ship is patrolling the waters of the West Indies looking for drug runners, and this score came early on in their mission. The ship's commanding officer said, "to have had a direct impact on the flow of cocaine into Europe just four days after we arrived in theatre shows the benefit the Royal Navy can have in the area of maritime security and counter drug operations."

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Sounds like Prince William is saving the world from drugs, right? Well, the war is a little more complicated than that - and we may be focusing efforts at the wrong stage of drug production to make any difference. To see what I mean, read more.

Though Prince William's seizure, and the White House both tout big coke scores as evidence the war is being won, other numbers paint a different picture.

A more expanded look at the data shows that cocaine use in the US isn't falling: the same percentage of Americans used coke in 2006 as they did in 2002, the number of high-school seniors using is growing, and drug shipments are up. Shipments have grown 39 percent from 2006 - that's enough to film a scene in Scarface for sure. Not to mention that drug related violence is sweeping through Mexico and Latin America; drug cartels are not scared of this "seize the powder" battle plan.

How could the war be fought more effectively? With less focus on the product (sorry William) and more focus on who's making it, and who's consuming it.

Spending more money on programs to wean coca farmers from the crop and while improving their lives is a start. By shelling out less money for security and policing, and more for economic development and a strengthening Mexico's judicial system, we could turn off the faucet at the tap, instead of bailing out the bathtub.

Where else? Focusing on the people in the tub. By expending more effort into curbing demand, emphasizing the treatment portion of the punishment for offenders, increasing education, and treating drug addiction more of public health problem than a law enforcement problem the customer base can be curbed.

Hey, I've seen The Wire and Nancy Reagan's guest appearance on Diff'rent Strokes - this War on Drugs thing is complicated. But focusing with a laser-intensity on the beginning of the supply, and the end user of the demand - we could make that giant pile of coke in the middle, just disappear.

What do you think? Is this war winnable?

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